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Uber can now let a family member see where you're traveling in real time

By Jacob Kastrenakes

Google's Echo competitor will reportedly be called Google Home

By Jacob Kastrenakes 14

Upcoming Arduino Primo will have Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, and infrared

By Paul Miller

The creator of Katamari Damacy is making a game with Google's Project Tango

Colin Lecher May 17, 2016 05:52 pm2 hours ago

The 2004 game Katamari Damacy is an often beautiful, childlike oddity with a still-devoted following. Today, Katamari creator Keita Takahashi, along with other members of game studio Funomena, announced a...

Will make an appearance at Google I/O

GauntLev is literally a gauntlet that levitates particles

Ashley Carman May 17, 2016 05:12 pm2 hours ago

Researchers in the UK have created gloves that rely on acoustic levitation to make particles float in mid-air. They're calling the device the GauntLev, or Gauntlet of Levitation; not only does it make...

We can now play with hazardous materials

Amazon’s next Alexa device could have a tablet-sized display

Nick Statt May 17, 2016 05:19 pm2 hours ago 2

Amazon's secretive hardware unit, Lab126, is working on an Alexa-powered display that resembles a tablet, according to a report today from The Wall Street Journal. Described only as having a "tablet-like...

To combine cooking and voice control

IBM's phase-change memory is faster than flash and more reliable than RAM

Nick Statt May 17, 2016 04:45 pm3 hours ago 6

IBM today announced a more efficient way to use phase-change memory, a breakthrough that could help transition electronic devices from standard RAM and flash to a much faster and more reliable type of...

Phase-change memory is closer than we think

Every time a photo of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Active leaks it gets uglier

By Micah Singleton 3

Lenovo will reportedly ditch the Moto X name and switch to Moto Z

By Chris Welch 12

Linksys routers to remain hackable after new FCC rules go into effect

Nilay Patel May 17, 2016 03:08 pm4 hours ago 1

There aren't many routers — especially extremely ugly routers — that qualify as iconic, but the Linksys WRT series certainly counts. It was so popular that Linksys actually brought the WRT line back in...

A victory for open-source router enthusiasts everywhere

Nest products gain a ton of new smart home integrations

Nick Statt May 17, 2016 01:50 pm6 hours ago 5

Nest products just got a whole lot more powerful thanks to a suite of integrations with third-party products, software, and services. Starting today, Nest devices can link up to products from August, LIFX,...

August and Nest cameras now work together

Ripcord lets you power 9V gadgets over USB

Nilay Patel May 17, 2016 01:47 pm6 hours ago 2

One of the clear signs of progress in this goofy modern world of ours is the slow, all-consuming standardization of USB power. Edison's revenge, if you will.

Anyhow, the Ripcord is a Kickstarter for a...

Edison's revenge continues

Samsung Notebook 9 review: redefining the thin-and-light

 read the review

Someone finally made a USB-C hub with a Mini DisplayPort

Micah Singleton May 17, 2016 01:09 pm6 hours ago 29

USB-C hubs, much like USB-C chargers, are a total crapshoot, as anyone who owns a MacBook will tell you. Yes, other laptops have USB-C ports, but they also have more than one port, because other...

But the perfect USB-C hub still isn't here

Black + Decker just introduced smart batteries so you can monitor your power tools

Ashley Carman May 17, 2016 12:34 pm7 hours ago 9

Black + Decker's new Smartech Bluetooth-enabled batteries sync up with the company's mobile app so you can monitor your power tool's battery life. Obviously. You can also use their tracking system to hunt...

Bluetooth batteries are way cooler when power tools are involved

Tumblr introduces 'GIF posts' on mobile

Jacob Kastrenakes May 17, 2016 12:00 pm8 hours ago 1

Tumblr loves GIFs. So now it's making it even easier to create and post GIFs.

Today on iOS, Tumblr is rolling out a new feature called GIF posts. It's a new post type that's built around the GIF-creation...

Wait, this didn't exist already?

Watch Facebook's stunning 360-degree video of Grand Central Terminal

Nick Statt May 17, 2016 12:00 pm8 hours ago 9

When Facebook's internal creative team, known as The Factory, set out to film a proof of concept for its new 360-degree video camera, they picked an ambitious subject: Grand Central Terminal. A New York...

A look at discrete daily life in Gear VR

T-Mobile adds NBC, Univision, and Spotify to Binge On

Micah Singleton May 17, 2016 11:51 am8 hours ago

Despite the fact Binge On is "likely illegal," T-Mobile continues to expand the all you can stream video service. The latest additions include NBC, Univision, and the video offerings from Spotify, Google...

Questionable free streaming video for everyone
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